Temperatures across parts of Australia have been up to 13 degrees Celsius above the August maximum on some days this week, and while climate change may the words on everyone's lips, it is not be the whole story.

Recommendations from an energy security taskforce, set up in the wake of Tasmania's 2015 power crisis, will be fully implemented within months, with the State Government acknowledging the need for a more "conservative" approach.

A decision to reject two controversial mining applications on a far north Queensland cattle station owned by the Government is good news for the Great Barrier Reef, the state's Environment Minister says.

Few countries recognise or investigate the links between wildlife crime — now worth between $9 billion and $29 billion a year — and money laundering, according to a new report that urges stronger measures be introduced to combat the practice.

The Queensland Premier orders an independent investigation into the dumping of interstate waste after Four Corners last week revealed an organised network sending rubbish by road and rail to avoid paying New South Wales landfill levies.

Underwater seaweed forests that disappeared off a 70-kilometre stretch of Sydney's coastline in the 1980s are making a remarkable recovery in a project scientists believe could help other imperilled coastlines around Australia.

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Iran's President has warned that it could be restarting its nuclear programme if the US imposes and more new sanctions. Beverley O'Connor speaks to former senior IAEA official and nuclear arms control specialist Tariq Rauf.

Underwater seaweed forests that disappeared off a 70-kilometre stretch of Sydney's coastline in the 1980s have made a remarkable recovery through a project that has reached the final of the Eureka Prize for environmental research.

It's been a disheartening week for those of us who like to recycle, after Four Corners exposed scandalous instances of the waste industry rorting the system. But here's a story about a recycling centre making a positive impact.